

Photos of some of my students from last Saturdays qualifying toymaker held in Chandler


Photos of some of my students from last Saturdays qualifying toymaker held in Chandler

My student Stefan S. from Desert Sun Academy played in last Saturday’s scholastic tournament in Phoenix, scoring 2 out of 4 games for a 50% score. Outstanding!

Playing in last Saturday’s chess tournament was the Pinnicle Peak Elementary school chess team of Katy, Bobby & Jordan.
Katy’s first tournament and she placed 19th place. Congratulations!
Kindergartener Addison Chase from Madison Simis scored 2.5 points out of 4 coming in 7th place in her first tournament!
Also from Madison Simis was kindergartener Dominic Kroeger who scored .5 point out of 2 games played in his first tournament.
Stefan Schaeffer, 3rd grader fromDesertSunAcademy scored 1.5 points in his first tournament
while Sairishitha (Rishi) Tamma
from Madison Simis and Jacob Wetherell & Everett Smith both from Pinnacle Peak Elementary all played well.
In the upper grades my returning student Joaquin Rosales
played very well scoring 3 out of 4 to capture 15th place while Jordan Black
from Pinnacle Peak Elementary experienced his first tournament.
One of my top chess players Thomas Patton
played for the first time in the Champ section finding out that moving up is tough.
It doesn’t matter where each student placed in the tournament, I’m proud of them all.

Here my student Parker from Desert Sun Academy beat his opponent for 1st place on the club ladder with this checkmate:


Kids at SSJ finish up with the last chess club date for the semester





Last day of chess at Esparanza
I received a fantastic compliment on my chess coaching abilities from a teacher at Desert Garden Motessori school this morning because of the positive changes she sees in one of her students who has been studying chess with me. That was really nice.
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